Tom G. of South Russell takes issue with my most recent tirade against Senator Voinovich:
Concerning “Voinovich Feigns Shock at Extremism”, I found an interesting article on line. I think the true extremists are decidedly from the left spectrum of political persuasion. Now you know.
The “interesting article” references incidents in which conservatives were the targets of — are you sitting down? — harsh words and, in some cases, vandalism. No injuries, and no hint of involvement or encouragement by prominent Democrats or liberals. But to Gretchko and many conservatives, these incidents are just as outrageous as the escalating, revolutionary rhetoric of the tea party movement and the real violence that even a Republican congressman recently called “domestic terrorism.”
Does that characterization offend you, Tom? Tell it to the family of Vernon Hunter (left). The 68-year-old husband, father and Vietnam vet worked at the IRS for more than 20 years, right up ’til February 18, the day that Andrew Joseph Stack flew a plane into the Austin building in which Hunter’s office was located. Hunter was killed. In a long, rambling suicide note, Stack lashed out at the government, politicians and corporations, and wailed endlessly, if vaguely, about brainwashing and supposed thefts of freedom. Aside from the occasional allusions to Stack’s impending death (“In a government full of hypocrites from top to bottom, life is as cheap as their lies and their self-serving laws.” … “I am finally ready to stop this insanity. Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let’s try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well”), the 3,200-word screed reads as if it were lifted from any tea party blog.
At right are Pittsburgh patrolman Eric Green, Paul Sciullo and Stephen Mahlye. All three were gunned down on April 4, 2009, by 22-year-old Richard Poplawski. Officers had been called to the house by Poplawski’s mother; he met them wearing a bullet-proof vest and armed with an AK-47 assault rifle. Longtime friend Edward Perkovic later told a TV station that “Poplawski feared ‘the Obama gun ban that’s on the way’ and ‘didn’t like our rights being infringed upon.'” Poplawski was a fan of rightwing pundits Alex Jones and Glenn Beck, and apparently bought into their endless conspiracy theorizing, including predictions — common among tea party members — that the federal government soon will begin imprisoning perceived opponents in concentration camps managed by FEMA.
And these are just two of the more high-profile cases — there have been many others. In each, deranged people were propelled toward violence by — and this is key — the very same anti-government obsessions that have spread like viruses among conservatives and tea partiers, from the leadership to the grassroots, since the election of Barack Obama.
Now you know, Tom G. of South Russell. Though I’m sure you and your fellow travelers will continue to equate violence and murder with shouts and keyed cars. — Frank Lewis
This article appears in Apr 7-13, 2010.
You are wrong about Alex Jones. He is a great American. He hates Glen Beck. You need to learn Alex Jones’s message.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz3g5yZt8EU
Ever heard of the Unabomber, Harlan Drake, Katherine Power, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Donald DeFreeze, or Katherine Soliah, Mr Lewis?
If so, then let’s talk!
Mr. Lewis,
Can you please tell me the date of the tea party attended by any of those you have listed? Broad brushes apply a lot of paint, but there is no quality to the work!
Stating that the tea parties and conservatives are “anti-government” shows your total misunderstanding of politics in general. Do we want the government to take 50% of our incomes? (that would leave me with $20K a year to live on!) NO! Do we want the government to tell us what we can do with our health and healthcare? (and I can’t afford health insurance!) NO! Do we want the government to tell us what car to buy? (I drive a Toyota!) NO!
Do we want our government to protect us from terrorists? YOU BET
You state stories of mentally ill people, not conservatives or liberals, but SICK!
Mr. Lewis, I have heard NONE of the insightment to violence that you state is being promoted by the tea parties and main stream conservatives. But, than, I do attend tea parties in only Northeast Ohio. That being said, I’d like to invite you to the John Carroll University on April 15th. I will even pick you up, if you wish, and buy you lunch after. You can point out to me what is offensive to you, as I don’t hear what you think you are hearing.
There, a conservative has invited you to come and break bread and come to an understanding (not to be confused with agreement).
Roz McAllister
Roz, the government is not taking 50% of your income, telling you what to do with your health, or telling you what car you have to buy. You illustrate the problem with tea-baggers, which is your movement is based on fears that are not grounded in reality. You are scared of the boogie man. Wake up. And if you think you can’t afford health insurance, than just wait until someone in your family becomes seriously ill; then you’ll understand what it means to not be able to afford something.
I will NOT be called a “tea-bagger” as that has a sexual meaning that needs not be brought to public!
Me wake up? How are we going to pay for this new health care bill? Taxes will increase or fines will be assessed. Not 50%? Add up your federal, FICA, state, local, and sales taxes. What is your current rate? Now add in the fine for health care and the increase in local taxes to cover the 48% of the bill that the feds don’t cover. 50% is NOT out of the question if things continue on the current path.
Right now, I pay $15 per office visit, if I need hospital care, I qualify for a reduced rate (my last visit was for free). I pay $4 for my prescriptions at a number of places. I currently pay less per year for health care than the fine I’d pay for not carrying insurance.
There IS health care available for the working poor and I use it legally. It’s cheaper than the fine I will receive from the IRS in a few years. I am not afraid of a boogie man, I’m afraid that when I need health care from this new bill that it won’t be there because I’m too old, fat or whatever makes it “not economical”. Are you aware that Medicare denies more procedures than any private carrier?
If I don’t have money for a trip to the grocery store, I don’t come to you and say “Give me $1.00” and than do the same down the street until I can buy my groceries, but that is what the government does. It takes from others to give out. Now, I DO believe in helping those less fortunate, and do so regularly. But I help whom I wish to help, not blindly give. I’m tired of giving the shirt off my back to those who own more shirts than I do! Understand what it means to not be able to afford something? Like a house with a working furnace? Clothes purchased new, not on clearance? Steaks from Heinens instead of hotdogs from Aldi’s? Dude, I’m already there! I most likely qualify for at least food stamps, but I choose not to be a continual burden and work hard from what I do have. I want to keep it and share it when I want with whom I want! Does that make me greedy?
It’s funny that little more than one year ago Jones was called a far left-wing ‘kook’ by O’Reilly & Beck, but now you place him in their camp. It’s a given that the man’s probably on a steady diet of ‘roids and shrooms. We all have to love his divisive, utilitarian, pawnish nature though, don’t we?
Politics have always been one family of rich, old, white, decrepit brothers playing a game of hungry-hungry hippos for all of OUR marbles. Either way – they win – we lose. Either way, here we are screaming our heads off for either side. Is this the conversation they want us to have ———— I think fuickin’ so.
There will always be nutcases and wedge issue that you can bang drums for or against, but do you not owe us at least a little more responsibility to deliver more than what we’re force-fed from the heads on BSNBC, Faux News, WTrivAM and the Lame Dealer though?
Seriously, inhale.. turn away from the computer.. exhale.. and consider the question again.
Ready? Here it is – again:
Do you not owe us at least a little more responsibility to deliver more than what we’re force-fed from the standard issue(s), talking heads from the main stream media?
‘Northeast Ohio’s Only Alternative Weekly’, really? It may be the biggest, but it’s not the only one anymore (though you can argue that The Independent is not a weekly, and blogs don’t count). As a long time reader, I’d suggest that maybe you should be concentrating a bit more on adding some substance to the ‘alternative’ claim, as the Northeast Ohio focus is getting blurred more & more each week.
But I could be wrong.
Yournamehere, this is going to sound sarcastic but it’s not: I honestly have no idea what you’re trying to say. The post on which you’re commenting was inspired by an email I received in response to an earlier post calling out Senator Voinovich for hypocrisy. I’ve been doing that for a long time now — to the point where even I’m finding it tedious — but I’ve been doing it precisely because such points are rarely made in the mainstream media. That’s also why I wrote the post above, to connect the dots between mainstream conservative political rhetoric and recent acts of violence, because the MSM rarely do.
It’s worth noting, too, that these blog posts are just one part of Scene’s coverage. At least I think that’s worth noting — I’m not sure if any of this is responsive to your comment because, again, I don’t understand what you’re driving at. But I’m happy to listen if you want to try again.
Journo-politico Violence: Deadly Threat or Menacing Trend?
A Public Safety Alert from David Burge
Executive Director and Chief Research Officer
The Media Violence Project / Center for the Study of Politician Sociopathy
At the Media Violence Project, our charter is to protect public safety by researching, documenting and raising awareness about the ever-increasing wave of violent, disgusting crimes perpetrated by members of the American news media. It is a largely thankless task — often requiring a cast iron stomach — but if our work has prevented one more American child from falling victim to a criminally insane anchorman or newspaper reporter, it will all have been worth it.
Every day at the MVP we receive emails from concerned citizens, such as this:
Dear Mr. Burge:
I have read with increasing alarm new reports of violence erupting around our country. For example, the recent rampaging campus murderer in Huntsville, Alabama; the Austin, Texas man who flew his plane into an office building; and the unhinged shooter at the Pentagon. Do you suspect these people may have been journalists? Also, what can I do to prevent my family from falling victim to these violent journalists?
Please do not print my name, as I live near a journalist and am concerned about my safety.
Name Withheld By Request
Dear “Name Withheld By Request,” let me first say these are excellent questions. Second, let me also say that I do not withhold names by request. Your name is Michael R. Bartolo, and you live at 2311 Briarcliff Court, Brown Deer, WI.
But let’s get to the crux of your questions: yes, in the cases you cited there is some circumstantial evidence that the alleged perpetrators harbored pre-journalistic tendencies (for instance, violent hatred of George Bush and capitalism, and messianic obsession with President Obama), but it doesn’t appear they were actual professional members of the news media. For one thing, unlike the vast majority of journalists, all of the suspects involved in these crimes reportedly had actual marketable skills — biochemistry, computer programming, growing weed, and so on. Until further evidence of journalism emerges, I believe we can attribute these incidents to a handful of those rare random psychopaths who do not possess press credentials.
Unfortunately, it now appears that these are the exceptions that prove the rule. In the two years since the MVP issued our first report, another tidal wave of media-related bizarre or violent crimes has come to light, each more shocking than the last. Like CNN reporter Richard Quest, arrested in New York’s Central Park in 2008 brandishing a noose or ABC Miami reporter Jeffrey Weinsier, charged with entering a school with a firearm. Or New Hampshire Union Leader sports writer Kevin Provencher, charged with operating a prostitution ring. It is unknown whether Provencher’s alleged activities were related to WABC New York sports anchor Marvell Scott, who was arrested earlier this year for allegedly raping a 14-year old prostitute. It is also unclear whether this Granite State “mack daddy” used a “strong pimp hand” with his “bitches,” but he might have shared tips and techniques with fellow journalists like Jason Scott Kidd, charged in 2009 with hitting a woman in the face at a Mexican restaurant, Gawker editor Richard “Date Rape Tips” Blakely, arrested for domestic violence, or Boise anchorman and alleged wife beater David Tester.
Shocking as they are, these incidents scarcely scratch the surface of the global crime wave caused by rampaging journalists. Our in-depth biennial 30 minute Google search uncovered a seemingly endless catalog of journalist-related crimes, astonishing as much for their depravity as their number. The reasons behind this phenomenon are complex, according to Media Violence Project staff psychologist Divad Egrub.
“Journalism school leaves these people ill-prepared for life in conventional society,” explains Egrub. “They see typical American people expressing normal opinions, and it causes confusion. In time, they become boiling cauldrons of paranoia and rage. This triggers a ‘fight or flight’ reaction, and sometimes they simply lash out.”
Often the journalist reacts with petty violence, like animal cruelty, but he or she can quickly graduate to more serious crimes like criminal trespass, theft, extortion, and arson. Some reporters seek release from violent urges through sex crimes like assaulting hypnotized women, window peeping or public masturbation or bondage acts with underage prostitutes, but with little long term effect. Often the journalist will seek to slake his thirst for violence though bar fights or scuffling with police officers or kicking elderly people in laundromats. The brutality soon moves inside the home, in forms like child abandonment and spousal abuse including beatings and throwing scalding water.
These are mere warm ups for what often comes next. Emboldened, the reporter begins packing heat and attempts to bring it into a courtroom, like KDKA Pittsburgh journalist Rob Milford, or join the “Mile High Journalist Assault Club” like Toronto TV anchor Colleen Walsh. Left untreated, he or she graduates to the “big leagues” of journalist crime. Examples include TV anchor Elena Skordelli, charged with arranging a murder hit on her producer, accused terrorist and Al-Jazeera reporter Baltasar Garzon, and alleged murderers like reporter Vlado Taneski, Ray Gosling, and TV anchorman Ted Failon.
In many cases, the violence is self-directed in the form of substance abuse. Wallowing in bitterness and self pity, clinging to his J-school memes, the journalist will seek escape in a fog of drugs and alcohol. This path remains only temporarily victimless as the drunk, drug-addled journalist can no longer resist the urge to get behind the wheel of his car. Television anchormen and anchorwomen seem particularly susceptible to this weakness, with recent arrests including South Bend IN anchor Debra Daniel, Tulsa anchor Jerry Giordano, Chicago anchorman and 2-time DUI loser Walter Jacobsen, Fort Wayne IN anchor Mary Collins, Austin anchor David Scott, Minneapolis anchor Beth McDonough, Mobile AL anchor Bob Solarski, and San Diego anchor Allison Ross. Before you can say “you stay classy, San Diego,” the vehicular casualty count begins to skyrocket as innocent bystanders begin falling victim to drunk anchormen like CNN veteran Rick Sanchez and Winston-Salem’s Tolly Carr.
For typical news reporters, these episodes teach an important lesson: a 4000-pound vehicle can be an amazingly effective and deadly weapon. Even in their brief, dimishing moments of sobriety, motoring reporters still enjoy the adrenaline rush of running over unsuspecting animals and pedestrians who stand in their way. Witness New York reporter Michael Sheehan, arrested for allegedly running his car into a police horse, and fellow Fox employee Don Broderick, accused of dragging a bicyclist 4 blocks through Central Park and menacing a female assistant with threats to “rip your f—ing head off.”
And what do professional journalists do when they’re not busy with murder, rape, assault, and vehicular manslaughter? Sadly, as will come as no surprise to those who read our initial 2008 report, they continue to prey upon America’s children.
As bad as these cases are individually, collectively they represent only the tip of a vast, bloody iceberg of media brutality. Most experts believe that the overwhelming majority of media crimes are never reported. “Think about it,” says Egrub. “We are actual relying on reporters to report on the crimes of reporters. All we really know about are the cases other journalists were too incompetent to cover up. For every one of them there are likely dozens lying on the media’s cutting room floor.”
Politicians: An Even Greater Menace?
And yet, Americans may be facing an even worse wave of domestic attacks from the only organized group arguably even more violent, stupid and useless than the news media: elected public officials.
In response to growing public outcry, the board of the Media Violence Project earlier this morning established a new affiliate organization, the Center for the Study of Politician Sociopathy. What our comprehensive 15 minute Google search revealed was an explosive outbreak of violence that, if trends continue, may actually eclipse the media public safety crisis by November. Most Americans were relieved to hear of the resignation of Congress’s disgraced predator Eric Massa, but we must realize his ticklefight dungeon was only one cell in a complex nationwide network of politicians with a thirst for violence or perversion. Like Illinois Lt. Governor candidate Scott Cohen, arrested for assaulting and holding a knife to throat of his prostitute ex-girlfriend. Or former U.S. congressman Craig Washington, indicted for aggravated assault in a shooting incident. Or Tennessee State rep and judiciary committee chairman Rob Briley, who allegedly tried to kick the window of a state patrol car after leading police on a drunken 100 mph car chase. Or California U.S. congressman Bob Filner, arrested for security tresspass and assaulting airport workers. Or Racine, WI mayor Gary Becker, facing five counts of felony child sex crimes.
“There’s an deep undercurrent of anger, alienation and frustration in Congress, as well as America’s statehouses and city halls,” explains CSPS study director Vadid Grube. “They feel that voters are no longer listening to them. Then come the drugs, followed by the extensive, journalist-like paranoid fantasies. And then… snap.”
The result can be devastating, as seen in the domestic abuse arrests of Ohio US congressional candidate Stephanie Studebaker, Washington state rep. Geoff Simpson, North Dakota state legislator and two-time domestic assault arrestee David Weiler, White Plains NY mayor Adam Bradley, Louisiana state senator Derrick Shepard (arrested for punching an ex-girlfriend and stealing her cell phone) or Queens city councilman Hiram Monserrate (accused of slashing his girlfriend’s face with a broken bottle). Eventually the violence moves to the streets, as in the cases of NY state senator Kevin Parker, Massachusetts state senator Anthony Galluccio, Rhode Island congressman and violent airport shover Patrick Kennedy, Republican Virginia legislative aide and accused violent gay-basher Bryan Fumagalli and California Democratic Council chief Christopher Stampolis, arrested for punching a female U-store clerk in the face. Sometimes legislators enlist their own children in the escalating mayhem, like Wisconsin U.S. Congresswoman Gwen Moore whose son was arrested for slashing the tires of political rivals.
The descent of a typical politician into a dark miasma of psychopathy does not happen at all once; in many cases it take weeks, even months, after election before evidence of full-blown criminal dementia becomes clear. The key is to recognize the warning signs. One early symptom is angry, threatening, and abusive verbal behavior: examples include U.S. senator Charles Schumer and his expletive-laced harrassment of a female flight attendant, Senate colleague Mary Landrieu and her threat to “punch [George Bush] in the face – literally,” California U.S. congressman Pete Stark, who left an angry message on the phone of an Iraq war veteran challenging him to “tell me why you think you’re such a great goddamned hero,” and the notorious live TV appearance of former presidential candidate Jesse Jackson where he expressed the urge to “cut [Barack Obama’s] nuts off.”
This behavior is frequently encouraged by other group members. Before his felony arrest and conviction for defrauding the government, NY State Comptroller Alan Hevesi publicly goaded Schumer at a Democratic fundraiser to “put a bullet between [George Bush’s] eyes.” A similar collegial appeal to shoot George Bush came from Kentucky governor Steve Beshear, addressed to famed face shooter Dick Cheney. The former vice president has yet to respond to this reach across the aisle, but frequently Republicans and Democrats can work together in a spirit of bipartisan violent cooperation. After Suffolk County NY Republican legislator Michael D’Andre threatened to attack Latino immigrant constituents with baseball bats, his Democratic legislative colleague Elie Mystal upped the ante by vowing that “I would load my gun and start shooting, period.”
“The ritualistic violent rhetoric acts as a kind of pregame lockerroom talk for the political class,” explains CSPS forensic psychiatrist Dr. Ivadd Ugber. “It builds and builds, sometimes including the vilest possible racial epithets, like in the cases of U.S. representative Carolyn Maloney and her senate colleague and former Ku Klux Klan official Robert Byrd. A charismatic team captain knows how to feed it, telling his teammates to ‘get in their face,’ and ‘punch back twice as hard’ and encouraging the use of weaponry such as pitchforks. Soon, they are worked up into a catatonic trance-like state of violent euphoria, like the Thuggee cult of ancient India.”
Hopped up on this rhetorical “Roid Rage,” politicians will begin banging helmets and savagely shoving each other, like in the case of Maxine Waters and David Obey, or ex-con fellow U.S. representative Alcee Hastings. By “game time” they have reached the point of explosive, near-murderous frenzy against their real opponents – random American citizens like you and me. Witness Massachusettes state senator and accused nighttime park stalker James Marzilli, or Virginia congressmen Jim Moran whose physical fury has been inflicted on his own wife, female friends, and an 8-year old boy whom he considered insufficiently deferential. Luckily, that young boy got off easy compared to the childhood victims of Portland Oregon’s mayor and admitted statutory rapist Sam Adams, and former Illinois congressman Mel Reynolds, convicted on 12 counts of sexual assault on an underage constituent. Police stings on politicians like Thomas Bodall have been partially successful in preventing further trauma to America’s children, but law enforcement officials say innovative programs like beefed-up capitol safety patrols and Special Politician Victim Units suffer from an unsurprising lack of funding — from politicians. Left unchecked, the politician graduates to more and more dangerous criminal activity — like Texas state representative Borris Miles, accused of waving a gun and assaulting female guests in a Houston hotel lobby.
When they first learn of the extent of this crime wave, a typical layperson will often ask me why the politician’s family, friends, consultants and staff don’t step in and hold an intervention before the behavior goes too far. Sadly, prolonged exposure to the politician’s violent extremism and sexual perversions can have a contagious effect on their aides and campaign workers. One example is Andrew Young, the former top aide / surrogate baby daddy / biographer of disgraced presidential candidate John Edwards, who was arrested several times while in his employ. Others include Missouri political consultant Skip Ohlsen, sentenced to Federal prison for firearm violations, or Durham County (NC) Democratic Party official Joy Johnson, charged with kidnapping, rape and assault related to her membership in a satanic cult. All too often, political aides allegedly train their perverse attentions on America’s vulnerable children — like Benjamin Jakes-Johnson, Barbara Boxer U.S. senate staffer Jeff Rosato, and Carl Stanley McGee, top aide to Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick. Although experts believe that most child molesters were themselves victims of an older attacker/mentor, we should note that so far there is little evidence that Governor Patrick or Senator Boxer were personally involved. But even after criminal conviction, some politicians are all too happy to welcome child predator aides back to work with a nod and a wink.
Laymen are often confused why we “just don’t kick these people out of office.” Unfortunately, this often results in unintended and bloody consequences. In many cases retirement does little to affect the urge for violence; consider former US Congressman Chip Pickering, arrested after a fight with a youth soccer coach; or former speaker of the Missouri statehouse Rod Jetton, accused of felony assault after allegedly hitting and choking a woman, and afterwards blaming it on her for failure to use their agree-upon safe word ‘green balloons’; or former US Congressman Tommy Robinson, cited for assault after a bloody attack on a man in a Brinkley Arkansas BBQ restaurant. “I mean, I’m a nonviolent guy, but you push me far enough and that’s what happens,” explained Robinson, giving vent to the seething, violent rage that all too often consumes the minds of the American political class.
“There is an ongoing ‘chicken-and-egg’ debate about this phenomenon in the research community,” notes Dr. Ugber. “Does a primal urge for violence drive the need to be in politics, or does being in politics drive the urge for violence?” Ugber cites the contradictory cases of Bobby Rush, who served as an officer in a domestic terror organization before joining the U.S. House, and Mark Siljander, a former Michigan congressmen who left the House prior to his indictment as part of an Al Qaeda money raising scheme.
What you can do to protect yourself and your family
Even after being confronted with the facts some citizens try to wish the crisis away. They naively believe it will take care of itself — pointing to instances of politician-on-journalist violence, like congressman Pete Stark’s threat to a journalist that “get the f–k out of here or I’ll throw you out the window,” and Senator Al Franken’s repeated angry challenges to fistfight another journalist. While this in theory would potentially thin the ranks of politicians and/or journalist, the battle-hardened survivors would constitute an even more dangerous threat to public safety. In the “Armageddon scenario,” journalists and politicians may even unite forces to wage an all-out bloody crime war against the public.
While it is impossible to completely eliminate the risk, there are specific steps each of us can do to minimize the body count. The key to survival is knowledge. Previous awareness-raising efforts by the Media Violence Project have helped Americans reduce their exposure to criminally insane journalists, but the threat of politicians continues to explode.
“Americans are accustomed to viewing their political representatives in an idealized light,” explains Divad Egrub. “We assume them to be clean, friendly, hard working, nonviolent criminals, peacefully thieving away at the public trough and diligently extorting bribes from special interest groups. The politician takes advantage of this gullible trust to draw an unsuspecting constituent within striking distance. Before you know it, the constituent is dealing with an erupting volcano of psychosexual rage.”
In order to protect yourself and your family the MVP and the CSPS recommend that you recognize the warning signs and take quick corrective action. In specific:
Hone your senses to be aware of journalists or politicians in your immediate vicinity. Be vigilant for satellite trucks, cameras, placards, bunting, and strangers with an excessive interest in hand shaking and baby kissing.
If your ‘gut’ tells you something is amiss, leave before the situation escalates.
Avoid eye contact, and walk by in a brisk, confident, determined manner.
If contact is unavoidable, use distraction and evasive maneuvers. If confronted by a journalist, tell him his makeup is splotchy. For politicians, yell “hey, look over there! A rich campaign contributor!”
These simple steps may buy you the critical seconds you need to avoid a lifetime of physical and psychological disability. But you can also do your part to help and inform your fellow at-risk citizens. Do you know of any journalist or politician-related crimes that have somehow slipped through our monitoring dragnet? Share them in the comment section of this post, along with appropriate links. To avoid server overload, please confine these to actual or potential instances of bodily harm, rather than garden variety immorality (graft, plagiarism, infidelity etc.).
Finally, you can help by contributing to the Media Violence Project and the Center for the Study of Politician Sociopathy. Your generous donation will support the research and entertainment expenses of dedicated staffers like Divad Egrub, Dr. Ivadd Ugber, Vadid Grube, and new intern Ddavi Grbeu.
Stay safe, and remember: forewarned is forearmed! Metaphorically.
Lightenup,
Excellent writing! I’m just glad it’s done in a style that is academic rather than jounalistic or I’d be frightened!
Thank you!
Not mine – visit “Iowahawk” blog and laugh til you cry. Very funny guy. Bascially pointed out that the NYT articles on soldiers “snapping” and killing people are about as scientifically accurate as a story using anecdotes about journalists doing the same thing. In fact all the things referenced in article were from published stories on journalist crimes or politician crimes. Each story is hypertexted linked at his site. Very readable and makes a good points with humor. Enjoy. Posted above as “lightenup”
Frank,
You never contacted me! Guess you aren’t joining me today at the tea party at JCU!
Your loss!